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...Tageszeitung, a leftist newspaper: "I was one of the last live rock 'n' rollers of German politics. Now there's an up-and-coming generation in every party who mime to pre-recorded tracks." In any case, the elections on Sept. 18 showed Germans are ready for different mood music. The Social Democrats lost four percentage points, torpedoing any chance of a return to power for the incumbents. And although the Greens maintained their share of the vote at 8%, it was another small party, the Free Democratic Party (fdp), that attracted new and younger voters, many under...
...political affairs. That is down from 57% of the same age group in the early 1990s. Says Hensel, the author from East Berlin: "With Fischer, for example, you knew what he stood for. With these new politicians, they don't stand for anything." Standing for nothing may suit the mood of a Germany that wants to concentrate on pocketbook issues rather than big ideas. But ideas, passion, fervor have a habit of unexpectedly coming back to life. In 1968, the country was being governed by its first ever coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats. With the two big parties...
...applause after Monk’s solo on “Nutty.” Simultaneously spellbound, confused, and awed by Monk’s avant-baroque jam, they hardly know what to do with themselves. The brilliant complexity of opener “Monk’s Mood,” displaying the great pianist at his best, truly is bewildering. It is enigmatic yet familiar, warm yet aloof...
This is microsurgery in a dollhouse, eight hours a day, with plenty of pressure; there are stress-relief posters in the hallway. But the mood is eerily calm. "Sometimes you knock something over and lose a lot of work," says Fabrice Joubert, who earlier worked on five DreamWorks cartoons, "but you have to be very...
...summer was “She Is,” by Clazziquai. It’s a Korean ballad – very romantic. If I was going to meet a girl, I’d listen to it on the bus ride there to get me in the mood...